Retro315
05-13-2009, 02:42 PM
Another good issue.
We get a little less insular and a little more wide world of DC here, but it's all in a good way.
Lois has a pretty good answer for Flamebird's condition - she calls Doctor Light, and Light has worked with Superman enough I gather to be a pretty qualified physician for a Kryptonian. So after she juices Flamebird and leaves her to sunbathe, Nightwing takes off (after some nice reunion time with Lois and some more hints about how his age-shifting is working).
Ursa's not keen on her failure, and also we learn that she's having trouble seeing in the sunlight (hence the goggles from all the way back in Kubert's interpretation in Last Son). Makes enough sense, so she ties a thin blindfold over her eyes that she can see through, kills Tor-An for his failure, and then has a little face-to-face with Nightwing, who tells her that just by coming she's jeopardized her own sleepers.
General Lane has been monitoring (here and there, until Doctor Light's very bright light show at Lois and Clark's apartment caught their direct attention) and we see some good interaction between Hollister and the other surveillance team members. I really can't help but chuckle at the irony that Lane knows his daughter's helping Kryptonians, knows all sorts of ways to stop Kryptonians, has it out for Superman ... but possibly still has no idea that Clark Kent is Superman.
We get a glimpse of the upcoming "Bonnie and Clyde" of Kryptonian sleepers (and they sure are).
Lastly, importantly - a girl in civilian clothes is lounging against surveillance computers with the soldiers. She's got rainbow colored tattoos along the side of her face, neck, and presumably further down. She's a super ... and Lane sends her on some sort of intelligence gathering mission, and we learn quickly that she's a teleporter (and possibly has some light-based powers as well, or the teleportation IS a light based power).
I've never seen her before, so I have no idea if she's a preexisting character, but she seems new and interesting to me.
We get a little less insular and a little more wide world of DC here, but it's all in a good way.
Lois has a pretty good answer for Flamebird's condition - she calls Doctor Light, and Light has worked with Superman enough I gather to be a pretty qualified physician for a Kryptonian. So after she juices Flamebird and leaves her to sunbathe, Nightwing takes off (after some nice reunion time with Lois and some more hints about how his age-shifting is working).
Ursa's not keen on her failure, and also we learn that she's having trouble seeing in the sunlight (hence the goggles from all the way back in Kubert's interpretation in Last Son). Makes enough sense, so she ties a thin blindfold over her eyes that she can see through, kills Tor-An for his failure, and then has a little face-to-face with Nightwing, who tells her that just by coming she's jeopardized her own sleepers.
General Lane has been monitoring (here and there, until Doctor Light's very bright light show at Lois and Clark's apartment caught their direct attention) and we see some good interaction between Hollister and the other surveillance team members. I really can't help but chuckle at the irony that Lane knows his daughter's helping Kryptonians, knows all sorts of ways to stop Kryptonians, has it out for Superman ... but possibly still has no idea that Clark Kent is Superman.
We get a glimpse of the upcoming "Bonnie and Clyde" of Kryptonian sleepers (and they sure are).
Lastly, importantly - a girl in civilian clothes is lounging against surveillance computers with the soldiers. She's got rainbow colored tattoos along the side of her face, neck, and presumably further down. She's a super ... and Lane sends her on some sort of intelligence gathering mission, and we learn quickly that she's a teleporter (and possibly has some light-based powers as well, or the teleportation IS a light based power).
I've never seen her before, so I have no idea if she's a preexisting character, but she seems new and interesting to me.